Fiddlers Green Beyond Violin/Notes



How to Play Fiddle

English Fiddle Tunes (study guide)
A study guide for English, Welsh,Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes by Robin Williamson

Old Mother Oxford

Argeers

Staines Morris performed by Orion's Bow

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCj8bghSRA8 Hunting the Hard Lull Me Beyond Thee English country dance, danced at the Country Dance New York's 25th annual Playford Ball in April, 2008. Website: www.cdny.org .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9tHHprcgU

Denise Myriam Cannas - The Young May Moon (twin harps)

Zeljka Milosevic solo harp

Swaggering Boney May be also known as "The Old Frog Dance", and used for the "The Congleton Bear".

Klezmer
Nothing matches the mystery and mood of top notch klezmer music. 

"Chusen Kala Mazel Tov" (Congratulations, Bride and Groom) Jewish Wedding Song (Klezmer, Instrumental)

with Abe Ellstein's Orchestra

Literatur

 * Wiltrud Apfeld (Red.): klezmer. Hejmisch und hip. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-89861-379-8 (Ausstellungskatalog mit 1 CD)
 * Alex Jacobowitz: Ein klassischer Klezmer. Reisegeschichten eines jüdischen Musikers. 2. Auflage. Tree of Life, München 2002, ISBN 3-00-003226-6.
 * Rita Ottens, Joel Rubin: Jüdische Musiktraditionen (Musikpraxis in der Schule; 4). Verlag Gustav Bosse, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-7649-2694-5.
 * Rita Ottens, Joel Rubin: Klezmer-Musik. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1400-3.
 * Seth Rogovoy: The essential klezmer. A music lover's guide to Jewish roots and soul music. Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, N.J. 2000, ISBN 1-56512-244-5.
 * Joan Sfar: Klezmer Band 1 Die Eroberung des Ostens. Avant-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939080-17-6.
 * Mark Slobin (Hrsg.): American Klezmer. Ita roots and offshoots. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 2002, ISBN 0-520-22718-2.
 * Georg Winkler: Klezmer. Merkmale, Str

Dave Tarras, 1897-1989, born Dovid Tarraschuk in Ternivka, (a village in Teplytskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine), possibly the most famous 20th century klezmer musician. He is known for his long career and his very skilled clarinet playing. 

Nigunim melodies
Hasidic prayer has a distinctive accompaniment of wordless melodies called nigunim that represent the overall mood of the prayer; in recent years this innovation has become increasingly popular in non-Hasidic communities as well.

Violin
From Israel.

Klezmer
Klezmer]

Ukrainian polka bands
Ukrainian tune in Reiner text



SpeedFolk
German band Fiddler's Green rocking the house with RRTD. Folk's Not Dead. Accordion and all.

From Fiddling Across America
ew Piney Mountain Tune discussed by Lester McCumbers.

Topic covered
New England, West Virginia, French Canadian, Courtesy of County Records, North Carolina, New York, Cape Breton, Courtesy of Rounder Records, Lisa Ornstein, Benny Thomasson, Clark Kessinger, Done Gone, Eck Robertson, Gerry Robichaud, Joe Pancerzewski, Arthur Smith, Doc Roberts, John Carson, Library of Congress, Tommy Jarrell, Civil War, Jean Carignan, John Chambers, Skillet Lickers, Andy Woolf New!

Virginia fiddlers
Galax, Va. version of Yew Piney Mountain here

Celtic
The Wind That Shakes The Barley

The Humours Of Lissadell

The Maid Behind The Bar

Rolling In The Ryegrass The Sligo Maid

The Earl's Chair Down The Broom, The Gatehouse Maid,

The Sailor On The Rock,

The Maids Of Mitchelstown,

The Stack Of Barley

Rise A Mile

Tune From Gurteen

Tom Billy's,

The Scotsman Over The Border,

Andy McGann's Jig, Old Man Dillon,

Sean Ryan's Jig,

Wallace's Cross, A Slide, A Jig.